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Deep learning-based probabilistic models of musical data are producing increasingly realistic results and promise to enter creative workflows of many kinds. Yet they have been little-studied in a performance setting, where the results of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Victor Shepardson , Jack Armitage , Thor Magnusson

A big challenge in algorithmic composition is to devise a model that is both easily trainable and able to reproduce the long-range temporal dependencies typical of music. Here we investigate how artificial neural networks can be trained on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Florian Colombo , Samuel P. Muscinelli , Alexander Seeholzer , Johanni Brea , Wulfram Gerstner

Despite significant advances in deep models for music generation, the use of these techniques remains restricted to expert users. Before being democratized among musicians, generative models must first provide expressive control over the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ninon Devis , Nils Demerlé , Sarah Nabi , David Genova , Philippe Esling

In addition to traditional tasks such as prediction, classification and translation, deep learning is receiving growing attention as an approach for music generation, as witnessed by recent research groups such as Magenta at Google and CTRL…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jean-Pierre Briot , François Pachet

Music is inherently made up of complex structures, and representing them as graphs helps to capture multiple levels of relationships. While music generation has been explored using various deep generation techniques, research on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Wen Qing Lim , Jinhua Liang , Huan Zhang

This paper explores the modeling method of polyphonic music sequence. Due to the great potential of Transformer models in music generation, controllable music generation is receiving more attention. In the task of polyphonic music, current…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiuyang Zhou , Tengfei Niu , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

While deep generative models have empowered music generation, it remains a challenging and under-explored problem to edit an existing musical piece at fine granularity. In this paper, we propose SDMuse, a unified Stochastic Differential…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Kejun Zhang , Shuicheng Yan

The traditional songwriting process is rather complex and this is evident in the time it takes to produce lyrics that fit the genre and form comprehensive verses. Our project aims to simplify this process with deep learning techniques, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tracy Cai , Wilson Liang , Donte Townes

In music creation, rapid prototyping is essential for exploring and refining ideas, yet existing generative tools often fall short when users require both structural control and stylistic flexibility. Prior approaches in stem-to-stem…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Trey Brosnan

We show that coherent, long-form musical composition can emerge from a decentralized swarm of identical, frozen foundation models that coordinate via stigmergic, peer-to-peer signals, without any weight updates. We compare a centralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Markus J. Buehler

In the realm of music AI, arranging rich and structured multi-track accompaniments from a simple lead sheet presents significant challenges. Such challenges include maintaining track cohesion, ensuring long-term coherence, and optimizing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang , Ye Wang

The field of Automatic Music Generation has seen significant progress thanks to the advent of Deep Learning. However, most of these results have been produced by unconditional models, which lack the ability to interact with their users, not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Pedro Neves , Jose Fornari , João Florindo

Automatic Music Generation (AMG) has become an interesting research topic for many scientists in artificial intelligence, who are also interested in the music industry. One of the main challenges in AMG is that there is no clear objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Maryam Majidi , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

Choral music separation refers to the task of extracting tracks of voice parts (e.g., soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) from mixed audio. The lack of datasets has impeded research on this topic as previous work has only been able to train and…

Songs, as a central form of musical art, exemplify the richness of human intelligence and creativity. While recent advances in generative modeling have enabled notable progress in long-form song generation, current systems for full-length…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Huakang Chen , Yuepeng Jiang , Guobin Ma , Chunbo Hao , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Ziqian Ning , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Lei Xie

A great number of deep learning based models have been recently proposed for automatic music composition. Among these models, the Transformer stands out as a prominent approach for generating expressive classical piano performance with a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yu-Siang Huang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

While most music generation models generate a mixture of stems (in mono or stereo), we propose to train a multi-stem generative model with 3 stems (bass, drums and other) that learn the musical dependencies between them. To do so, we train…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Simon Rouard , Robin San Roman , Yossi Adi , Axel Roebel

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate complex structures from simpler elements. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Giovanni Bindi , Philippe Esling

Even with strong sequence models like Transformers, generating expressive piano performances with long-range musical structures remains challenging. Meanwhile, methods to compose well-structured melodies or lead sheets (melody + chords),…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Shih-Lun Wu , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Generative models of music audio are typically used to generate output based solely on a text prompt or melody. Boomerang sampling, recently proposed for the image domain, allows generating output close to an existing example, using any…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Alexander Fichtinger , Jan Schlüter , Gerhard Widmer